Eastwick, Philadelphia

Eastwick is a neighborhood of Southwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was named for Andrew M. Eastwick, and it was largely rural until the 1920s, when swampy land was dredged to create room for an airport and other large-scale uses within the city limits. During Philadelphia's political shift from Republican in the 1940s to reform Democrat in the 1950s, community redevelopment took off, and the city made plans to relocate poor African-Americans to the community. In 1958, the Korman Company replaced the poorly maintained and blighted homes with newer suburban construction from the 1960s to 1970s. It became one of the city's few integrated neighborhoods, and it had 14,424 residents in 2000, with 57.47% being black, 36.7% white, 2.68% Asian, 1.91% Hispanic, and .69% other.